Monday, August 27, 2012

Wiccans - Field II








This is everything I loved about music when I was in high school and everything that made my parents worried that I was a crack-addicted fucktard. It is unintelligible, infectious and loud. This album gets our highest recommendation if you want to be a punk rock Peter Pan. If you've already grown up, then buy it anyway so they can afford to move to Austin and leave me the hell alone.

Team Tomb - s/t






Pretentious. Team Tomb. Caleb Ian Campbell. Three different ways to say the same thing. Between the Peopleodianesque loops, the incessant falsetto and the incomprehensible lyrics, you get the feeling that Team Tomb wants you to know that they are way better than you, but don't want you to be able to figure out why. I'm gonna bet that it's just a front. The singers' vocals are dreamy and distorted to obscure their inability to sing. The lyrics are buried under the uninspired sounds to hide the fact that there isn't a narrative here—and the song titles we're just made up and slapped on to sound cool: (“Put a bird on it!”). The overall musical landscape just doesn't go anywhere too interesting. I'd liken the listening of this album to masturbating for an hour without climaxing. It might be OK here and there, but, c'mon, what's the point?